Zach galifianakis

Zacharius Knight Galifianakis was born on October 1, 1969 in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States, but his ancestors are Greek, his grandparents immigrated to the New World from Crete, and in fact Zach, the second of three children, was baptized in the Orthodox Church. Despite his rambunctious appearance, the guy has a pedigree, as his uncle Nick Galifianakis was a United States congressman for the Democratic party between 1969 and 1973, and even ran for senator, since he didn’t get it.

Although Zach attended North Carolina State University, where he studied communication, he did not graduate. Instead, he thought it was time for a change of scenery and moved to New York. Before continuing with his trajectory, he may agree to transcribe the autobiographical text from his official website. There the comedian tells what follows: “I come from the foothills of the mountains of North Carolina. Now I live in the mountains of that state. And I also live in Brooklyn. I come from a family. I like tractors and red wine. I feel like living your life in a contradictory way keeps you confused and happy. I dislike those who dirty. Sometimes I like to go to the zoo and ride on the back of a bison. I dream of Iceland from time to time. It makes me laugh when people miscommunicate. I like to walk on bridges and I hate Donald Trump and people like him. The entertainment business is both poison and honey. I drive a Subaru. It’s automatic. I squeal sometimes in that car. I do my numbers all over the United States.”

As can be seen, Galifianakis cultivates a peculiar sense of humor, which he developed in the Big Apple. He is not one of those who can say that he has had a run on the classic Saturday Night Live, since he only lasted there for a couple of weeks. But he has had a long presence on sitcoms and comedy shows, such as Boston Common (1996) and Comedy Central Presents (2001). In cinema he debuted with the absolutely unknown film The King and Me (Pamela Dresser, 1999), where his role is that of “pizza boy”. He was also, always with minor roles, in the comedies Las seductoras (2001) and Pirados por la nieve (2001). More serious was his weighty role as a coroner on the television drama seriesTru Calling , which aired from 2003 to 2005.

But it is clear that what Galifianakis likes is laughter, a very American iconoclastic humor of direct jokes, sometimes with a broad stroke, the Jackass style , to understand us. Thus, Dog Bites Man (2006) was a laugh-out-loud TV show with false news. After a fleeting appearance in the highly esteemed Into the Wild ( Sean Penn , 2007), there was something prescient with the gambling city, as it appeared in the Cameron Díaz and Ashton Kutcher comedy Something Happens in Las Vegas ( Tom Vaughan , 2008), and we cannot forget that the following year he would definitively strike the blow with the hooligan comedy The Hangover (Todd Phillips , 2009), where his hangover bearded hangover look with baby hanging from his neck instantly drew laughs, is his best work to date. Due to the success, the sequel Hangover 2 has not been long in coming, now in Thailand! (2011), where the director and actors repeat; it was credited to his personal veto for the film’s departure from Mel Gibson , who was to make a cameo appearance. In the same vein of crazy comedy, although not as fortunate, in 2010 he did Dinner , a sad remake of the French film Dinner for Idiots , and Balanced Account , where he was accompanied by Robert Downey Jr. Of course, Up in is much more interesting. the Air (Jason Reitman , 2009), although his role as a victim of the layoffs was short.

Without a doubt, Galifianakis has taken an incredible pace when it comes to acting. His only clearly leading role has been in Visioneers ( Jared Drake , 2008), an independent film about stress in the world of work, but the supporting roles are piling up –for example, with the guinea pigs of G-Force: License to Spy (2009) . or with Emma Roberts in It’s a Kind of Funny Story (2010)– and he seems to have hit it off with another professional funnyman, Will Ferrell , with whom he just made Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie at the same time as Southern Rivals has already been announced .

Curiously, for an actor identified with transgressive films, and who from time to time gives a severe cut to his colleagues, little is known about his personal life. He once jokingly declared that “my girlfriend looks a bit like Charlize Theron …and a lot like Patrick Ewing.” We’re assuming she wasn’t referring to Quinn Lundberg, the woman he’s seeing, co-founder of the Growing Voices charity.